Positive identification was made Tuesday of a decomposed body found Friday in Palmyra Township.

Dental records confirmed the body is that of Catherine A. Sackrider of Indiana, said Lenawee County Sheriff Jack Welsh. The 58-year-old woman went missing Sept. 18 after leaving her daughter’s home in Sylvania Township, Ohio. She failed to return to her home in LeGrange County, Ind. Her 2003 Chevrolet Silverado pickup was discovered abandoned in a Sylvania park on Sept. 25.

Dental X-rays taken during an autopsy of the body on Saturday were delivered Tuesday to a dentist office in Sylvania where Sackrider had been a patient, said Welsh. The match was confirmed at about 4:30 p.m. and police officers then delivered the news to family members of Sackrider in Sylvania.

The sheriff’s department will continue to play an active role in the investigation of Sackrider’s death, said Welsh.

The autopsy was inconclusive on a cause of death, he said. Her death remains under investigation as suspicious while results are awaited from more tests by a medical examiner.

Until the place and cause of death are determined, he said, the sheriff’s department and Sylvania Township Police Department will work together.

“That’s going to be the whole issue: where was she murdered, if she was murdered,” Welsh said.

The body was found in the open, near an unused barn surrounded on three sides by a cornfield on Scott Highway near Station Road. The isolated area is about three miles west of the village of Blissfield.

A farmer spreading lime on the field noticed the body about 1:30 p.m. Friday.

The sheriff’s department contacted Sylvania Township police Friday evening after a detective recalled publicity in September about a woman missing from Sylvania.

She was reported missing a week after she drove away from her daughter’s home at about 7 p.m. on Sept. 18. The investigation of Sackrider’s disappearance was stalled for lack of leads, police in Sylvania Township and LaGrange County had reported before the body was discovered.